“I like to embroider and make baskets, see how at the beginning there are only leaves or vines and then the basket is already seen, or like when you embroider, first you see only the threads and you begin to draw something that you have in your head and you see it appear, like this is appearing little by little, like the plants that come out when you put the seed “

Group

There are fourteen Maya artisans who work together and whose mission is: “to be a women’s cooperative that embroiders new designs on a pedal machine and sells at a fair price.”

Dzitnup is a community in eastern Yucatec belonging to the municipality of Valladolid.

The cooperative was formed in 2006, but they have been working together since 2003. They embroider their garments in a pedal machine, dominating the movement of the hoop and the drawing of the traditional iconography constituted by flowers, birds and vegetation of the region.